SAT vocabulary
Declaim
to utter or deliver words or a speech in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience
Example
"The orator began to declaim against the injustices of the new law, his voice ringing with conviction."
Etymology
From Latin declamare, from de- 'down, thoroughly' + clamare 'to shout'.
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